Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-26
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Eighth: That in this season of Thanks
giving we thank our stars tempered with
their rays benign the home of our natiy-
ity:n for these favors collectively, and for
all blessings, past, present and prospective.
Prof. Stevenson finished the reading OF
the resolutions and State Superintendent
Morgan introduced the speaker of the eve
ming.
DIR. WHITES ADDRESS.
Following is brief synopsis of DIR.
Whites lecture:
Childhood is q warfare. Two forces are
in conflict. On the one side are reason and
conscience, on the other horde Of evil ap-
petites eager to rule and ready to barter
heaven and earth to secure it. Not In the
lions lair nor the vulture's nest are their
passions half so fearful as in the breast OF
the most innocent child. Out of the issue
of this never-ending conflict grows the
child's future. Out of the cradle of every
child come there voices pleading for help.
The higher nature, the rightful ruler,
the capabilities, the possibilities of
that child all plead for assistance.
Whose duty is it to heed the call? answer
in the first place, the parents Of the child;
and there is no higher duty, to which man
or woman is called. Parenthood is On
Office, which once assumed can never be
addicated. The nursery is the school OF
supremest Importance in this land. Moth
ing can lift from the household the respon-
sibility Of proper training. The child
grows out of the family into the
community. Hence the community
also must stand by the cradle and
hear that cry for help. If the parents
neglect that duty, the people must per-
form it. The State then stands by with
plenary power to see that the child is edu-
Gated into the duties of citizenship. This
in itself constitutes an unanswerable ar
gument for public education. Yet in the
face of il and the innumerable facts OF
history that confirm it, our whole system
of public education is constantly under
fire.
But my object is to state anew the duty
of the State to every child. Why should
the State educate? My first answer Is il
should educate that it may be
STRONG IN WAR,
that it may resist assault from without and
rebellion from within.
The next argument is little higher.
That the State should educate its children
that it may be rich. That is the road to
wealth. Education the world over pro,
notes wealth and encourages Industry.
You may put an educated people on the
bleak hills of Scotland or the bleaker hills
of New England, and they will be rich,
surrounding themselves with all the ele-
meuts of ease and comfort.
In the next place education increases
the power of labor. The uniform testi.
mony is, other things being equal, that the
educated man is the more valuable work
man. In the same establishment, where
educated and ignorant may work side by
side, il is almost an universal rule that the
educated man is the most productive Ia
boreT.
No people were ever made poor by tax
ing themselves for education. But many
nations have been kept poor by short
sighted educational economy.
Now, there is only time to give one
more reason. The State should educate
that liberty may be secure. In our gov
eminent the will of the people is supreme.
In such country there must be such intel
ligence among the people as may enable
them to see thier highest interests. The
greater the country, the more diversified
the interests, the greater the intelligence
needed. And five come down TO history
for illustration, what has history to say?
How often have the people seized the soil
for liberty, only
To SEE 1T sNATCHED AWAY
by tyrants. As speak tonight, besOtted
ignorance is treading over the graves of a
dead Republic, all along the coast of
Southern Europe, while liberty still lives
in Switzerland, that mountain diamond of
freedom. And why is thisH 1t is be-
cause for three generations the school
master has blessed the Swiss youth.
In view OF these facts when we remem-
Der the amount of ignorance that still
exists in our land our fear must be
aroused. fat the last election all had
voted who bad the right to vote, the
ballot would have been cast by more than
a million OF voters who could not read the
names upon that slip of paper. ! say to
you now that the duty of the hour is to
see TO it, that this dense mass OF Ignorance
decreases, In the hands of the teachers of
this land is its future safety and perpetuity,
for from the training they give springs
those pure and noble instincts that make
men freemen.
At the close of DR.. Whites eloquent ad-
dress Miss Katie Field sang charming
song.
Prof Anderson announced that there
were several prominent educators present
whom the Institute would be pleased to
hear from, and called on Dr. Blaisedell,
who addressed the Institute briefly. DIR.
Jepson, DR.. Mccoy, DR.. Cunningham,
State Superintendent Morgan and DIR.
Newell made short addresses, and after an
unusually interesting and instructive SEES
sion the Peabody Institute was declared
adjourned.
POINTS ON PEOPLE.